# How Thuppakki Went from a Hindi Project to a Vijay Film

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121115606863028283
- Source account: [@SARKAR_Munaf](https://x.com/SARKAR_Munaf)
- Source language: Tamil
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:21
- Published: 2026-11-13
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film) That was the Thuppakki, Holiday phase, when you joined Murugadoss sir.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=3) Thuppakki, yes, sir. Thuppakki. They'd picked two or three ADs.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=6) They picked it because then… Thuppakki was supposed to be a Hindi film.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=9) Yes, that Hindi film's ADs—the Hindi team.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=11) So that Hindi team was from Bombay back then.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=13) We dealt with a producer in that way. And we worked on an untitled Hindi project, which eventually became Thuppakki. Right.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=20) So that itself was interesting then. For that Hindi film, we'd discuss it every day.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=24) One day, Murugadoss sir jokingly asked, “If not made in Tamil, who could?”

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=27) Can we make it in Tamil? Will it connect? Sir asked.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=29) It will, sir. Really exciting. He narrated that whole interval sequence to me.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=33) First, he asked me to come in for work. On day one, I was an AD. He didn't call me back at once.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=38) I'll take you on. Come when told. He said come after 20 or 25 days. On my first day, he narrated the first half of Thuppakki.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=44) That was all he had then. Just the first half.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=46) He had the journey, but not what came next.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=48) He narrated the first half, then asked, “Who for?”

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=50) He asked who would suit it if they made it in Tamil.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=52) Then another AD, Gnanamoorthy, and I— we were both there for Vijay sir.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=55) We said, “Sir, this film will be really good.”

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=57) We said so. It was a Hindi film then. Then, a day or a day and a half later...

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=61) S. A. Chandrasekhar called Murugadoss sir.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=63) And he asked, “Do you have a story for Vijay sir?”

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=66) Murugadoss sir joked... You said that call was a coincidence.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=69) Quite a coincidence. Then he spoke to Hindi producers and the Hindi lead actor, Akshay Kumar sir.

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=74) They agreed. We could make it in Tamil, then remake it.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=76) We could make it in Tamil, then remake the Hindi film.

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/b4So2E47LP4n/en/how-thuppakki-went-from-a-hindi-project-to-a-vijay-film?t=79) That's how Thuppakki happened.